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The government has proposed merging all 16 polytechnics into one and significantly reforming industry training organisations to address falling enrolments and millions of dollars in deficits in a “broken” sector.

The second 48 hour long junior doctors’ strike in a month is underway and a third is on the cards. More than 3,000 junior doctors arranged the strike, with many walking off the job to protest better work conditions.

Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni is rubbishing the opposition's claims that government softness on sanctions is to blame for 11,000 more people receiving the Jobseeker Support benefit. Sepuloni says overall benefit numbers were stable and only 0.1-percent higher than last year.

Waikato marae clusters Ngā Muka Development Trust and Waahi Whānui are backing the new American $70mil chicken hatchery at Whangape near Huntly, which will supply to 10 percent of the world's markets. Ngā Muka Chair Glen Tupuhi says the plant has provided jobs for locals.

The Amalgamated Workers Union (AWUNZ) says the government should pay the living wage to seasonal orchard workers. The living wage is the income necessary to provide workers and their families with the basic necessities of life.